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Encyclopedia > Fascination Records
Fascination Records
Parent company Universal Music Group
Founded 2006
Distributing label Polydor Records (UK)
Interscope Records (US)
Genre(s) Various
Country of origin UK
Official Website http://www.fascinationrecords.co.uk

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As part of Polydor Records UK, the label will concentrate on a small number of pop acts and will complement the re-activated Fiction rock imprint. 1920s vintage Polydor export label with its double-horn gramophone logo In 1954 Polydor Records introduced their distinctive orange label. ... For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ...

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Main artists

Having become the first all-girl group ever to score 15 consecutive Top 10 hits with their first set of releases (as part of Polydor), Girls Aloud moved to Fascination for the release of their greatest hits album The Sound of Girls Aloud and it's preceding singles "Something Kinda Ooooh" and "I Think We're Alone Now" Girls Aloud are a Smash Hits Poll Winners, TMF award-winning and BRIT Award-nominated English girl group created on ITV1 talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. ... The Sound of Girls Aloud is a greatest hits anthology by British girl band Girls Aloud. ... Something Kinda Ooooh is the thirteenth single to be released by British girl band Girls Aloud. ... I Think Were Alone Now is a song written by Ritchie Cordell that was a 1967 hit for American recording artists Tommy James & the Shondells and re-popularized 20 years later by Tiffany. ...

Shooting to fame as the singer of Spiller's "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)", Sophie went on to score a string of Top 10 singles. Her multi-platinum album Read My Lips peaked straightly to the UK Top and was a success throughout many European Countries, Asia and Australia. After the release of her second album, Shoot From The Hip, Sophie took a break in from music to have a baby and to marry Richard Jones from The Feeling. She recently finished her third solo album with the Fascination team, which is due out in Spring 2007. It's entitled Trip the Light Fantastic with the first single from it being "Catch You", released on 19 February 2007, becoming her 7th Top 10 Hit. Also, she released "Me and My Imagination", the second single from her 3rd album, reaching the UK Top 40 again. Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor (born 10 April 1979) is a multi-platinum selling English pop singer and songwriter. ... Spiller is an Italian DJ (noted for being the tallest DJ in the world at one stage). ... Groovejet (If This Aint Love) is a single by Spiller (featuring vocals by Sophie Ellis-Bextor) and released in 2000 by Positiva Records. ... Read My Lips is the first solo album released by pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor. ... Shoot from the Hip is the second album by pop singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, released October 27, 2003 by Polydor. ... The Feeling are a five-piece BRIT award-nominated English band from Sussex and London. ... // January George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queens New Year Honours List. ... Trip the Light Fantastic is the third solo album by British popstar Sophie Ellis-Bextor. ... Catch You is Sophie Ellis-Bextors first single from her third album, Trip the Light Fantastic. ... Me And My Imagination is Sophie Ellis-Bextors second single from her third album, Trip the Light Fantastic. ...

The winner of the BBC1 show How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? released her debut album Favourite Things on Fascination on October 9, 2006. Her debut album peaked #14 on the UK Album Charts. Connie Fisher (born in 1983) is an actress and singer, who won the BBC One reality show How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? Fisher was delighted to be named Maria: [1] On 15 November 2006, she opened to good reviews in the part of Maria von Trapp in... BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest United Kingdom, and indeed, the world. ... How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? was a British talent show, shown on Saturday evenings on BBC One, first broadcast on 29 July 2006 until the series finale on 16 September 2006. ... October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... The UK Albums Chart is a chart of the sales positions of albums in the United Kingdom. ...

The Popjustice compilation album, Popjustice: 100% Solid Pop Music, has also been released on this label. Popjustice is a music website founded in 2000 and is the work of UK freelance music journalist Peter Robinson, who has worked for NME, The Guardian, Attitude and many others. ... Popjustice is a music website founded in 2000 and is the work of UK freelance music journalist Peter Robinson, who has worked for NME, The Guardian, Attitude and many others. ...


Rumoured artists

Fascination in collaboration with Prestige Management are in the process of auditioning for an all male pop group of a similar ilk to Busted and Mcfly.


See also

This is a list of record labels. ...

External links

  • Official site
  • New artist search
  • UK Top Connie Fisher
  • Pop Justice


 

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